Abstract
The safety and efficacy of the leadless pacemaker (LP) have been confirmed in previous reports, yet studies on LPs in superelderly patients are limited. A total of 62 patients aged over 85 years old were implanted with single-chamber pacemakers due to symptomatic bradyarrhythmia at Sakakibara Heart Institute from May 2014 through July 2019. We divided them into two groups, a transvenous (TV) single-chamber pacemaker group (35 patients) and an LP group (27 patients), and compared the groups. Mean participant age was 90.3 ± 3.8 y.o., 41.9% were male, and mean participant body mass index (BMI) was 21.3 kg/m2 . The LP group contained a significantly larger proportion of patients with dementia than the TV group did (63% vs. 37.1%, P = .04). The complication-free rate tended to be lower in the LP group in spite of the higher frequency of dementia (88.6% vs. 92.6%, P = .68). At implantation, the pacing threshold was significantly higher in the LP group than in the TV group (1.30 ± 0.91 V vs. 0.71 ± 0.23 V, P < .01), but over the first 3 months after the operation the pacing threshold in the LP group gradually improved (0.82 ± 0.2 V vs. 1.05 ± 1.02 V, P = .16). The procedure time and time from operation to discharge were also shorter i...Continue Reading
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